BOVESPA Carnival Holiday Schedule – 2006

BOVESPA informs that due to Carnival Holiday on February 27th and 28th, on March 1st (Wednesday) the trading session at BOVESPA will start at 01:00 p.m., as follows:

Mega Bolsa - Electronic Trading System - continuous session from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

• Pre-opening fixing: from 12:45 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
• Closing call: from 5:55 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Options Exercise

• Stock Options Exercise: from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• Index Options Exercise: from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

After-Market trading session - from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

BovespaFix and SomaFix - from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.